There’s an adage that goes: “The best part of the meal is the company.” And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town.
The assassination of JFK in 1963 and of RFK and King in 1968 have long been the subject of conspiracy theories regarding the ...
President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental records related to the assassination ...
At Syracuse University in 1965, Dr. King said "change is not self-operative; you cannot depend upon American institutions to function without prodding and pressuring." ...
Martin Luther King Jr. gave over 2,500 public speeches ... I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ...
Held on the third Monday of January every year, Martin Luther King Day - also ... attempt a decade earlier, King was shot dead on the balcony of his hotel in Memphis, where he had traveled to ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also ...
FILE - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building on March 25, 1965 ...
On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation workers, who were in the midst of a protracted strike against the city. This is ...
Dr. King visited Mansfield twice during the 1960s. Both times, he addressed standing-room-only crowds at Mount Hermon Baptist ...
Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, ...
The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of ...